Motivational Quotes

Faith

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Faith

Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.

Stott, John R.

If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

Greene, Graham

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

Fromm, Erich

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Chambers, Oswald

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

James, William

Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

Beaumont, Francis

And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.

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Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity.

Donne, John

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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.

Forster, Edward M.

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

Einstein, Albert

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There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.

Jones, Rufus M.

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it.

Thackeray, William M.

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Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.

Dillard, Annie

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Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

Young

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Faith. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Faith makes: The uplook good, the outlook bright, the future glorious.

21.

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

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Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

Auden, W. H.

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Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Luther, Martin

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It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.

Evarts, William M.

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Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

Augustine, St.

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If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. [Mark 9:23]

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.

Teller, Edward

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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Faith is the vision of the heart; it sees God in the dark as well as in the day.

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If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

Billings, Josh

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My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

Messiaen, Olivier

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he.

Proverb, Indian

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Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

Lubbock, Sir John

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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

Pope, Alexander

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Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.

Barton, Bruce

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For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made... [Romans 1:20]

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

Wooden, John

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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

Newman, Cardinal J.

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Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.

Henry S. Haskins

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Faith does not deny the evil, but it sees around it.

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood